CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) A Bullet Runs Through It: Part 1 (2005) User Reviews

Very Dramatic Opening, Then The Investigations

[ccthemovieman-1 · 7/10 · 6 March 2007]

This episode, the first of a two-part story, begins with a dramatic shootout in the streets, reminding me of the 1995 movie "Heat." They even use similar music in here. Hundreds of rounds are blasted in the opening minutes until someone is finally hit, a policeman, who is killed. Three of the four suspects are killed, too. Then, we get the normal investigation on the police, beginning with Captain James Brass.

Tensions are running high, to say the least, as the Hispanic community is outraged that this shooting took place and at least one innocent person, a high school boy, was shot. The father of that boy is on TV making charges and threats. "The police wouldn't have been shooting if this was The Strip," he notes. Meanwhile, the cops aren't happy, either, that no one seems to be caring about their dead rookie.

Most of the show is just what I mentioned above: investigations by police, examinations by CSI and the medical examiner, and an angry Hispanic community.

At the end of this first part, we see the fourth suspect, the only one still alive, captured.....and, predictably, shot as he is being led away.

Why is a CSI in on an IA interview?

[tert72 · 7/10 · 2 July 2022]

Not sure why a CSI is sitting in on the interview. Really has no reason to be there except to count the "live " rounds left in a gun...I do try to suspend my disbelief in reality while watching this show.. but it gets harder and harder. Especially with Catherine.

And can't believe the writers did that to Brass. Freaking unbelievable.

No Win Situation

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 7 February 2021]

I won't say much other than to set up the second half. This episode begins with a police chase where those being chased are Latino and are firing high powered assault weapons and pistols. The cops get three of the four, but there is so much action, it's hard to tell who did what. The Latino community begins to react because they don't trust the cops. The episode ends with something that will have to be resolved.

A tough episode to swallow. But necessary for humanity

[gpdjer-38644 · 10/10 · 5 August 2015]

At first I did not realize this was going to be a 2 part episode until the first ended in a cliff hanger. This episode rounds out a tale rife with public outcry, ethnic hostilities, differing cultural perspectives, hard evidence, and even harder results. In this episode you find out the results of a lot of the items that are left hanging from the first half, along with some surprising new evidence that needs examination. You see the toll the incident has taken on the new(er) officer (Sofia )and how the road-tested and street-hardened veteran helps her to take her life by the hands instead of into her own hands, all the whole staring down their own barrels with IA. I felt the end of the investigation was somewhat predictable inside the lab but what happens outside the lab is nothing short of life saving. We all have paths in life, usually traveling down that which provides the least resistance or pain. One must be truly brave to walk another path, while having someone truly selfless to meet you there.

Who Killed Bell?

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 28 January 2023]

Capt. Brass and Sofia are on pursuit with other police cars of a car with suspects and the criminals shoots at the police offices with automatic weapons. When their car overturns, there is an intense shootout and in the end, three criminals and the police officer Daniel Bell are killed. The police officers also find a teenage student shot in the back a few blocks away and his bicycle missing. With the hostile population of the poor neighborhood lying to the press saying that the police officers executed the suspects and the father of the wounded teenager pressing the police, the CSI team needs to investigate a long area and retrieve several bullets to prove the truth. Meanwhile Brass and Sofia are investigated whether they accidentally shot officer Bell.

"A Bullet Runs Through It: Part 1" is a great episode of "CSI", with the entire team working to find and prove the truth about a shootout. The most impressive for those who live like me in a Third World country is the behavior of poor population. They blame and accuse the police of killing innocent and unarmed suspects, using the yellow press and public outcry to promote their usually lies. Who killed Bell is the great question of this episode since it was a friendly fire that murdered him. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "A Bullet Runs Through It: Part 1"